Getting to the playoffs is linked to a $200 increase in local per capita income, while winning the Super Bowl is worth about $33 per person.
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Elite athletes are known to be tough-minded. Research reveals openness is also a key personality trait, one that allows them to execute creative, unscripted plays.
Philly sports fans embrace a working-class ideology that thrives on being the underdog and emphasizes toughness, hard work and a combative defiance.
How does someone with power and fame walk away from it? It’s not easy, as these three examples from politics and sports show.
As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to take on the Philadelphia Eagles, The Conversation takes a critical look at some of the biggest news stories from the past NFL season.
The Super Bowl is more than a game — it’s an ecosystem of parties, the halftime show, the ads and 100 million people watching despite the sport’s ugly and dangerous side.
The Stanley Cup winner has proven to be a weirdly accurate stock market predictor. That’s why we should cheer for the Washington Capitals this year.
What happened after Brandin Cooks took a massive blow during Super Bowl LII helps explain why NFL’s concussion crisis isn’t killing the sport’s popularity.
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Professor of Finance, Goodman School of Business, Brock University
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Professor and Director, Center for Gambling Studies, Rutgers University
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E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
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Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Toronto; Middlesex University
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Professor of Political Science, Trinity College
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Associate Professor of Clinical Communication, The Ohio State University
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Professor and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
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Chairperson and Associate Professor of Law, College of Staten Island, CUNY
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Professor of Communication Studies, Eastern University
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Professor of Neuropsychology, Drexel University
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Associate Professor of Economics, Missouri University of Science and Technology